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This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge
of the workings of Paint Shop Pro.
Made with PSP version 6.0.
If you have not worked with vectors before,
you should visit "Spike" to learn all about this feature of PSP.
I used these three images to floodfill areas of the moose.
    
Just right-click on them and save to your harddrive.
For more great woodgrains and textures, please visit the site where I found them.

This tutorial is dedicated to ThatKyLady, my best friend and *twin*. *LOL*
Thanks for sticking with me, sis.
A big thanks also to Liz ;-) for the test drive! *g*
Step #1. . .turn on puter!

Now...on to Mr. Moose!

Open those floodfill images in PSP and minimize them
for use in just a little while.
Open a new image, transparent background, 500 X 500 pixels.
This will give you plenty of room to work.
Set your foreground color to black.
Go to preset shapes tool.
Shape = ellipse.
Style = filled
Line width = 1
Antialias = checked.
Create as vector = checked.
Start at the center of your image form and draw an ellipse, like this:



Now, to make half of our antlers, we have to add nodes and do some shaping.
To add nodes, go to Vector Object Selection tool,
then to the control box and click on Node Edit.
While holding down the Control Key,
click the cursor at two spots on either side of the top center node
and once on each side of the bottom center node.
This will add new nodes to the image.
Feel free to use more or less as necessary.



This is the hardest part of the tutorial to do.
You will now start to shape the antler using the little "handles"
to form the three lobes of the antler.
I try to keep the bottom line fairly straight during this process.
It's hard to show you exactly what I did, but I'll try to get you started:



You will have to adjust the other nodes to make the next two lobes
of his antlers. May have to pull the other handles outwards and turn them
to get nice rounded tops.
Make one lobe bigger than the other two so that it looks more "mooselike".
You want a long narrow left side to this shape...
it will be covered by the head shape later.
Adjust as much as you need and check the shape by right-clicking
and choosing Quit Node Editing.
Go back to Control Box and Node Edit for more adjustments.
Here is what my final shape looked like for the right antler:



When you are satisfied that you have a nice antler shape,
go to Layers > Convert to Raster (accepting the default settings).

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tutorial and graphics © Auntie Em 2000